Rugeley (Helen) Collection 1831-1945

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Rugeley (Helen) Collection 1831-1945

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Correspondence, legal documents, financial documents, notes, photographs and printed materials gathered by Helen Julia Hoskins Rugeley relative to Thomas Moore Harwood, Thomas Franklin Harwood, Reuben Ross and others.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Harwood, Thomas Moore, 1827-1900

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Harwood, Thomas Franklin

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Ross, Reuben

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Civil War (Confederate Army), 1861-1865

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Rugeley, Helen Hoskins, 1911-

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Thomas Moore Harwood, great-grandfather of noted genealogist Helen Rugeley, was born on September 30, 1827 in Virginia, where he studied law before moving to Texas in 1850. He worked as a teacher in Matagorda and Prairie Lea before establishing himself as an attorney in Gonzales in 1853. Until his retirement in 1894, Harwood worked as a partner in various Gonzales law firms, notably Harwood and McKean from shortly after his return from the Civil War until his retirement, Harwood and...